Duke Divinity School

Duke Divinity School
Duke Divinity School Gray Building.

The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 full time and 18 part time faculty and over 500 full time students. The current dean of The Divinity School is Richard B. Hays, who replaced the former dean and now, senior advisor for international strategy, L. Gregory Jones.

The Divinity School was founded in 1926 as the first graduate school at Duke, following a large endowment by James B. Duke, a tobacco magnate, in 1924. The Divinity School carries on from the original founding of Trinity College at the site in 1859, which provided free training for Methodist preachers in exchange for support from the church. Though the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it is also ecumenical in outlook and has both faculty and students from a variety of denominations.

The Divinity School building was recently renovated and also expanded. The Hugh A. Westbrook Building, which opened in 2005, is 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2). It also contains the 315-seat Bishop W. Kenneth Goodson Chapel with 55-foot (17 m)-high ceilings, office space, a bookstore, cafe, outdoor patio, and a 177-seat lecture hall.

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Academics and Programs

The Divinity School offers a Master of Divinity, Master of Theological Studies, and Master of Theology degrees. A Ph.D. as well as an M.A. in religion is available through the Graduate School, drawing upon the resources of faculties of the Divinity School and the Department of Religion. A Doctor of Theology, or Th.D, program began in the fall of 2006. It focuses on areas of study such as worship, evangelism, preaching, and the arts which are neglected by the Ph.D. program.

The programs run through the school include the following.[1]

  • Theology and the Arts
  • Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition
  • Anglican Episcopal House of Studies
  • Baptist House of Studies
  • Black Church Studies
  • Center for Reconciliation
  • Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
  • Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation
  • Ormond Center
  • Pulpit and Pew
  • Sustaining Pastoral Excellence
  • Health Initiatives Program
  • Thriving Rural Communities
  • Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

The Divinity School is perhaps most noted in American theological circles for serving as a fountainhead of postliberalism, or narrative theology, a movement originating in the 1960s and 1970s at Yale Divinity School.

Duke Divinity also benefits from the resources of the Duke Endowment, providing an outlet for this fund's support of higher education and the rural church in North Carolina. Resources from this endowment go towards student internships in rural North Carolina Methodist churches, further clergy development, and other programs. The Divinity School is home to Stanley Hauerwas, whom Time named "America's Best Theologian" in 2001.[2]

Notable faculty

The recently completed Goodson Chapel, part of the Divinity School's latest addition.

Notable alumni

The interior of Goodson Chapel

References

  1. ^ http://www.divinity.duke.edu/programs/
  2. ^ Elshtain, Jean Bethke. CNN/Time - America's Best. Time. Retrieved on May 30, 2007. Archived May 23, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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